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MDA, Air Force, and Raytheon require dimensionally stable and survivable SiC substrates and coatings for the Space and Precision Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS/PTSS) Track Sensor Telescope(s). System requirements include: operation in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), surviving a nuclear event, optical performance across the 0.6-12 microns wavebands (VIS/MWIR/LWIR), and operational temperatures from ...

MDA, Air Force, and Raytheon require dimensionally stable and survivable SiC substrates and coatings for the Space and Precision Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS/PTSS) Track Sensor Telescope(s). System requirements include: operation in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), surviving a nuclear event, optical performance across the 0.6-12 microns wavebands (VIS/MWIR/LWIR), and operational temperatures from ...

The current U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) is comprised of a range of components, the integration of which is the responsibility of the Command, Control, Battle Management, and Communications (C2BMC) system. In the current architecture, track data from Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) systems and ground-based radar systems are processed separately. However, ongoing work is devel ...

Creating a real-time single integrated missile picture for defense against enemy missile attacks presents technical challenges due to both sensor measurement errors and discrimination uncertainties that arise from the nature of missile object characteristics and signatures. Successful intercept of lethal objects is critically degraded if uncertainties preclude the effective discrimination of letha ...

As more countries hostile to the U.S. gain access to and develop ballistic missile technology, the threat of attack against U.S. territory or its allies steadily increases. The continued advancement of Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) interceptors to support longer range missions on more flexible and agile vehicles is crucial to counter this threat. These advanced interceptors require subst ...

MDA and other DoD components are interested in Advanced Multi-Purpose NIR/MWIR Dual-Band Coatings and Mirrors for HEL Beam Control Systems for future Airborne Laser and MDA High Power Laser weapons and sensors, whether airborne or spaceborne. The proposed technology is relevant to all beam control and delivery systems, including: primary and secondary mirrors, Coudé mirrors, scraper mirrors, fas ...

MDA’s objective is to field a “joint, integrated, and multilayered Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) to defend the United States, our deployed forces, and our allies and friends against ballistic missiles of all ranges by engaging them in all phases of flight.” As new weapons systems are developed and brought online, they each contribute to the overall BMDS objective by providing capa ...

The next generation kill vehicles are being developed to intercept an advanced target. MDA recognizes that meeting the evolving threat will require leveraging the next generation propulsion technologies towards a synergistic kill vehicle assembly. The impact of simply adding the propulsion components into a traditional missile structure is a KV assembly with redundant structures, as was shown on ...

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Crystal Research, Inc. (CRI) and Lockheed Martin Corp. (LM) propose to develop an x-band photonic multi-beam receive array based on a high-speed one-variable fiber-optic true-time-delay beamformer, capable of simultaneously receiving more than 10 independent RF beams with wide scanning angle of }60 degrees and fast scanning speed of 300 ns. Such a high steering speed is 3 orders of magnitude fa ...